Ceramics have had a renaissance lately–there’s Spanish surrealist designer Jaime Hayon’s work for the venerable porcelain manufacturer Lladró, Atelier NL’s gorgeous locally-sourced Drawn From Clay series, or Vienna’s 250-year-old Augarten porcelain factory partnering with new-school designers like Marei Wollersberger.
As funky as those projects look, they’re all made with traditional methods. Today’s ceramics might look cool, [...]
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Carl Jung believed that art provides insight to the subconscious. But his brand of psycho and art therapy assumes that there is depth and discovery to the subconscious in question. That is not always the case. Peter Max scrawls his intentions clearly (in three letters) across every canvas he covers.
Proof that you don’t need psychoanalysis [...]
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Give my regards to Broadway. As the song says, I should next be remembered to Herald Square. But instead I think I’ll just stroll on down to it. From Times Square to Herald Square, stretches of Broadway have been closed to vehicular traffic since May of 2009. A trial run for reducing street congestion and [...]
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Back in 1999, four lanky young men went on bizarre road trip that culminated at the dingy Big Texan Steak Ranch, seated at a red checkered table on a stumpy wooden stage. The ridiculously large timer behind them was set and they dove in—attempting to choke down a 72 oz steak and fixings in 60 [...]
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A brief interview with Scott Hull.
How do you measure the success of the visual?
• Illustration probably is harder to measure than standard design techniques. You know when you have a good one, (and you know when sales go up) but that intangibility – that certain quality of a piece of art that comes from a [...]
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